Archive For: The Crunch
9th Sep 2014 Another must attend event is the Port Harcourt international Fashion Week, tagged – “Native and Vogue”. It is an assembly of top designers and models across Africa, to celebrate the totality of African Fashion. Native and Vogue has a number of reasons for its existence, first, it showcases established designers, and then, ... Read More
9th Sep 2014 Some good news in the fight against Ebola, as more and more organizations work to create a vaccine, and philanthropists and governments dig into their pockets to fund research. One such partnership is the one announced between the Dangote Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, a non-governmental organization in the UK that works ... Read More
8th Sep 2014 Africa is a continent with a million delights and we love the fact that more and more nations are opening their eyes to the tourism opportunities they have to offer. One of these countries is Angola. We earlier told you about plans to establish a hospitality training school in Luanda, and now, ... Read More
8th Sep 2014 Shakes Mashaba has barely started work, but he is already living up to his name with the surprising list he has picked for the African Nations Cup Qualifiers. The Coach has included players from the current national Under-20 side in his squad. Some names include goalkeeper Dumisani Msibi and captain Ayanda Magqwaka. ... Read More
8th Sep 2014 Another country shaking things up is Cameroon. The nation has had quite a run of bad press lately; what with the fight on the pitch during the world cup. Plus Samuel Eto’o’s just announced retirement. National Coach Volker Finke thinks that they need a fresh start. According to Times Live SA, the ... Read More
8th Sep 2014 It was a day of sighs and groans, moans and woes as Nigeria showed a rather shaky kickoff to their African Nations Cup aspirations. The match, the first one since the temporary resolution of the contract standoff between the Nigerian coach and the Nigerian Football Federation, saw Coach Keshi do his best ... Read More
3rd Sep 2014 Lagos, better known as Las Gidi, is one of the most bubbling, exciting places on the continent. We love its spark, we love its energy and we love that feeling that anything is possible. But like every other city in the world, Lagos has its fair share of things that we do ... Read More
3rd Sep 2014 Guys, remember sometime recently when we shared something called the Twitter Premier League. For those of you unaware of the league, it’s not a competition where the person who tweets the most or the fastest wins, nope, it’s a league for social media folks who love football. You know all those ones ... Read More
2nd Sep 2014 We love volunteers and we love good causes and we love people who go out of their way to do stuff for others; and so, you can trust that we got really excited when we heard about the Lead Inspire Transform organization, a not for profit that in their own words, works ... Read More
2nd Sep 2014 Guys, remember last week that we shared how Libya has had to withdraw from hosting the 2017 African Cup of Nations Championship. We also told you that Kenya has immediately indicated interest. Well it seems they have some competition for that bid as Ghana has also stated that they would like the ... Read More
